{"id":7258,"date":"2026-06-05T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepiccinini.org\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:46:15","slug":"s-messa-xxvii-dies-natalis-enzo-piccinini-saluto-vescovo-di-parma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepiccinini.org\/en\/2026\/06\/05\/s-messa-xxvii-dies-natalis-enzo-piccinini-saluto-vescovo-di-parma\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Messa XXVII Dies Natalis Enzo Piccinini &#8211; Saluto Vescovo di Parma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2oo8rv-baa389434493d43b2c4f05a394c444c1\">\n.flex_column.av-2oo8rv-baa389434493d43b2c4f05a394c444c1{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2oo8rv-baa389434493d43b2c4f05a394c444c1 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-ka1mxbgv-3081507ed62920ea4533b9e0473fbc77 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><strong>Holy Mass, XXVII Dies Natalis of the Servant of God Enzo Piccinini<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Message from Bishop of Parma, Enrico Solmi <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday May 23, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2oo8rv-4-565a06dc90b6bd669cab0e153c721eb5\">\n.flex_column.av-2oo8rv-4-565a06dc90b6bd669cab0e153c721eb5{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2oo8rv-4-565a06dc90b6bd669cab0e153c721eb5 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-ka1mxbgv-3-ef41e3050f70509daa2813e3c595aae6 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Message from Enrico Solmi<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5>Bishop of Parma<\/h5>\n<p>Enzo Piccinini, a figure and a man who takes me back in time. When the Diocese of Modena Nonantola was a hub of youth ministry and I was a theology seminarian. In Serramazzoni, in the summer, we gathered with associations, movements, and the parishes&#8217; &#8220;backyard&#8221; ministry. I met him there, as on other rare occasions. An open, confident smile that broke down those treacherous steps between groups. Then the memory of the accident and the history that is today. &#8220;E&#8217;,&#8221; the present tense of the verb &#8220;to be,&#8221; indicative, because Enzo &#8220;is&#8221; and not &#8220;was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is in the Father&#8217;s house in that &#8220;eternal today,&#8221; the certain condition of eternal life. Astonishing, unimaginable to us fragile creatures and, speaking for myself, marked by sin. God&#8217;s eternal today is love, joy, and a full existence that we can sense from the glimpses of love and beauty that the Father offers us and that we, despite everything, by grace, are able to experience here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Piccinini, like Giancarlo Rastelli, Odoardo Focherini, and so many others, is a layman, a husband, a father, and a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The call to life and baptism gave rise to the vocation to marriage, colored, for these figures, by demanding professions, dedicated to others, in care and communication. But that&#8217;s not all: a further calling demands a &#8220;martyrdom,&#8221; a testimony that touches the depths of the person and goes beyond reasoning, suppositions, and calls for prudence\u2014even if true, but transcended in a &#8220;beyond&#8221; that only the Lord knows.<\/p>\n<p>While the slanted headstone in the Cittanova di Modena cemetery, next to that of a close friend and esteemed people, might suggest a &#8220;was,&#8221; the reality lies in the present, which is also the future: the &#8220;will always be&#8221; of a continuing today.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, in reality: eternal life is beyond time, a condition\u2014how poor our words!\u2014that the Lord guarantees in that &#8220;place&#8221; prepared for Enzo and for us. But it is rooted in the future of the lives of those who knew him and who drew from him faith, courage, and love. His family and many friends, fueled by his enthusiasm, cared for\u2014a physician of body and soul\u2014in their labors that call upon a companionship ready to reassure, support, and give strength.<\/p>\n<p>But also the future of prophecy. Today, it is sought as the water that generates and the light that illuminates the path and points the way. Even slow steps, in the circle of light from an ancient lantern\u2014&#8221;Your Word is a light to my feet&#8221;\u2014so as not to stumble and reach the goal\u2014&#8221;the city set on a hill&#8221;\u2014seen in the distance, luminous, even if it must be reached by paths still being discovered. Prophecy is having the friendship of the One who entrusted it to us at His Last Supper, the companionship that assures us as we reach the homeland of all. Expressed in the humanity that the Father wanted for his Son, with the wisdom the Spirit offers, never in fearful concealment, never in rude affront, always in the sincere charity of the Truth given.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo among the multitude who inhabit the city of God, because he dwelt with God, the city of men.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bishop of Parma \u2013 Enrico Solmi \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ka1mlgqm-67205d4f89a4d614e72eb7b89736baf2\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-ka1mlgqm-67205d4f89a4d614e72eb7b89736baf2{\nheight:100px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-ka1mlgqm-67205d4f89a4d614e72eb7b89736baf2 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_gallery '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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